U.S. Mail, interior of R.R. car – Vintage Wall Art
![U.S. Mail, interior of R.R. car, [between 1909 and 1940] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f1/f193ee945458-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures U.S. Mail, interior of R.R. car in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S. Mail, interior of R.R. car
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Inside this railway car, mail clerks sorted letters and parcels while the train was moving, so the mail could be ready for delivery before the train reached its next stop. The Railway Post Office system dated to the 1860s and had become a central part of how the United States moved mail across the country by the early twentieth century. This picture is a glass negative from the National Photo Company, a firm that photographed American life and industry in the early 1900s, and its coating shows streaks and blemishes from natural deterioration.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch six. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,937 × 4,317 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-257370 |
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